News for Oct. 15, 2005

Fast Chat Rupert Everett

10/15/05, 1:50 pm EST - Xoanon

There's nothing elementary, my dear Watson, about British actor Rupert Everett's portrayal of film and literature's most famous detective in "Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking," a 2004 BBC-WGBH-Boston co-production making its U.S. premiere on PBS' "Masterpiece Theatre" next Sunday. The production is not an adaptation of a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story but an original script by "Prime Suspect 2" writer Allan Cubitt, who adapted the Holmes tale "The Hound of the Baskervilles" in 2002. It's Sherlock as a sort of "House" meets "CSI." [More]